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The Three-Arched Bridge: A Novel Paperback – October 1, 2013

by Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator)
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In the Balkan Peninsula, history’s long-disputed bridge between Asia and Europe, the receding Byzantine empire has left behind a patchwork of warring peoples who fight over everything, from their pastures of sheep to the authorship of their countless legends.

One such gruesome tale declares that a castle under construction cannot be finished until a young mason’s bride has been walled up alive, one breast left exposed to suckle her growing infant even after her death. Myth becomes perverse reality when a mason is plastered into a bridge over a strategically important river, where his will not be the last human sacrifice.
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“Kadare once again turns the proverb inside out: . . . he hurls his words—not glass but resounding crystal—against the stone houses of history.” (Richard Eder - The Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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Ismail Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, and is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries. He divides his time between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcade; Reprint edition (October 1, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611458730
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611458732
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.25 inches
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Thomas M. Ricks
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Ismael Kadare is a master of minute detail yet swift action. The trranslation from Albanian is excellent and makes for an easy but suspenseful read focusing on the metaphor for the might of the Ottoman or Turkish bridge being built to replace the inefficient and decrepit ferry/raft that takes people back and forth across an impassable river. The story midst all the "old world" myths and beliefs of the seasonal changes in the river both when its weak and when its terrifying. Thus, despite the many obstacles offered by nature (traditional) Balkanic world in the form of the river, the builders foretell the new masters of the region, a super power of architects and laborers that facilitates however reluctantly at first the future invasion of others from near and far along the ancient Roman road; the past masters as it were of road building or empire building. Similar in great part to Ivo Andrich's BRIDGE ON THE DRINA written in the mid-1930s and perhaps a Serbian inspiration for this Albanian bridge metaphor; Andrich was forecasting the power of the economic Hapsburg imperial conquest of the Balkans in the 1880s and defeat of the political Ottoman empire of the previous three centuries. Kadare's depiction of the Albanian region in the early 14th c. pre-dates the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine empire (AD 400 to 1453) and like Andrich, will perhaps foresee the awarding the Nobel prize in literature as Andrich's own Bridge forecasted his award in the 1960s. We certainly hope so as Ismail Kadare has written more than a two scores of fascinating fiction and non-fiction works and deserves to the Albania's first ever Nobel prize winner. His Siege, Palace of Dreams, and Bridge are among his Islamic-Ottoman works.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Difficult read
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
I thought that Kadere's book "The Siege" is one of the best books I have ever read but "The Three-Arched Bridge" was a difficult read for me. I thought the book "The Bridge Over the River Drina" referenced by the other reviewer much better compared to this book.

One theme of the book using stories/songs to presage events was the highlight of the book for me.
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